Posted By Lindsay Jones On February 6, 2010 @ 11:26 am In General Broncos | No Comments

FORT LAUDERDALE — Floyd Little’s Hall of Fame fate has likely already been determined. But he, and everyone else, still has to wait about four more hours, until 5 p.m. EST to find out if he’s going to Canton.

The 44 members of the Hall of Fame committee, which began meeting at 9 a.m. EST today, listened to the presentations, debated and then voted on the two senior committee finalists (Little and Dick LeBeau) first.

Mike Klis of the Denver Post just spoke with Little, who checked in via phone from his downtown Miami hotel.

“I haven’t slept in three nights,” Little said. “It has been rough.”

And the waiting doesn’t get any easier. Little will be driven to the the Fort Lauderdale Convention Center at 4 p.m., where he’ll wait out the decision. If Little has been elected to the Hall, he’ll be brought to another room and then on stage. If he didn’t get 80 percent of the votes, Little will be escorted out a back door. How heartwrenching is that?

The Broncos’ other Hall finalist, tight end Shannon Sharpe, is keeping himself quite busy today in rehearsals for CBS’s Super Bowl pregame show. Sharpe told Klis that he is handling the anticipation of the Hall announcement better this year than he did last year, when he was on the ballot for the first time.

“Last night was probably my worst night’s sleep,” Sharpe said. “I don’t envy Floyd. I know what he’s going through because I was there last year.”